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Sports / Wed, 10 Jun 2026 Cricbuzz

Heavyweights Australia eye return to the summit

They need to get their hands on some silverware again. It's also an ode to just how indomitable they were for so long as a T20 team, where they won three world titles on the trot, that even a two-year gap feels like an eternity for this incredible team. They still largely maintain a core of the players who made them the yardstick of women's white-ball cricket but there's still a fresh feel courtesy a new captain at the helm in the form of Sophie Molineux post the retirement of Alyssa Healy.

They need to get their hands on some silverware again. It's also an ode to just how indomitable they were for so long as a T20 team, where they won three world titles on the trot, that even a two-year gap feels like an eternity for this incredible team. They still largely maintain a core of the players who made them the yardstick of women's white-ball cricket but there's still a fresh feel courtesy a new captain at the helm in the form of Sophie Molineux post the retirement of Alyssa Healy.

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